Model comparison
Claude Opus 4.1 vs Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 7 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite in 2 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.1 leads 62.6 to 51.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 80% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 52.5% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite.
Side by side
| Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 40.8 | 37.3 |
| Released | 2025-08-05 | 2025-02-05 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 200K | — |
| Max output | 32K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $75 | — |
| Results tracked | 48 | 32 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 44.3 (#69), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.4 (#181)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1479 | 1322 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.3% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1390 | — |
| WeirdML | 45.9% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 47.1% |
| ALE-Bench | 674.77 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.34 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Opus 4.1: 34.8 (#38), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 38% | — |
| GDPval | 43.6% | — |
| Cybench | 42% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 48.3% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1148 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 66.8% | — |
Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 31.6 (#70), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 21.2 (#203)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1443 | 1324 |
| DTBench | 80% | 52.5% |
| ForecastBench | 62 | 57.1 |
| SimpleBench | 60% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 7% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 7.2% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 7.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 50.1% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 21% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65.5% |
| LMCA | 37.1% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 144.11 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 54.3% |
Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 22.0 (#267), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.8 (#192)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1430 | 1309 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 12.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 2.4% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 68.9% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 37.4% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 58.1% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 7.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
Knowledge Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 41.9 (#93), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.6 (#185)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1439 | 1305 |
| GPQA Diamond | 77.3% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 11.5% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 72% |
| Confabulations | 17.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 11.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 50% |
Multimodal Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 26.2 (#114), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 30.6 (#103)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1100 |
| VPCT | 35% | — |
Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 52.1 (#90), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.2 (#156)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1405 | 1323 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1427 | 1339 |
| LMArena French | 1432 | 1346 |
| LMArena German | 1412 | 1306 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1378 | 1302 |
| LMArena Korean | 1381 | 1325 |
| LMArena Russian | 1421 | 1328 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1448 | 1313 |
Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 75.8 (#53), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.6 (#158)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1436 | 1305 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 78.3% |
| IFEval | — | 82.4% |
Long Context Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#60), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#155)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1455 | 1321 |
Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads
Claude Opus 4.1: 62.6 (#70), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.9 (#172)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1419 | 1330 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1412 | 1319 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1444 | 1307 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 84.7% | — |
| WildBench | — | 79% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 34.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite?
Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 37.3 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better for coding?
Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.3 versus 37.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32.